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  • DVD Pick: Bruno on Nov 18, 2009

    In what must be the most shocking and audacious American film in recent memory, Sacha Baron Cohen solidifies his status as gross out comedy’s golden god, and rare intellectual auteur. The brainiest, bawdiest, most jaw-dropping-est festival of dirty...

  • Fantastic Mr. Fox on Nov 16, 2009

    In his first foray into animation, Fantastic Mr. Fox, director Wes Anderson breathes fresh life into his familiar quirks. Adapting Roald Dahl's work of the same name, Anderson creates a vibrant underground world in which animal's combat a trio of foo...

  • Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire on Nov 15, 2009

    The much-hyped little indie which took the festival circuit by storm is not exactly the feel good story big shot executive producers Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey would lead you to believe. It's a grueling, unrelenting cinema experience in which dire...

  • The Box on Nov 15, 2009

    Despite the popular opinion that The Box would be writer/director Richard Kelly's safe commercial sell-out film after producing two consecutive divisive cult gems (Donnie Darko and Southland Tales), the film actually fits very snugly within the emerg...

  • DVD Pick: Up on Nov 11, 2009

    The latest from Disney’s unstoppable Pixar, Up, is by far one of its most exciting adventures. Not quite the meditative masterpiece that Wall-E was, the film is more story-driven and plumped with action. A few very welcome juvenile touches (talking...

  • Where the Wild Things Are on Oct 18, 2009

    Visionary director Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation.) has made an instant-classic live-action children's film that could very well become the 21st century's The Wizard of Oz. His adaptation of author Maurice Sendak's iconic children's bo...

  • An Education on Oct 17, 2009

    Director Lone Scherfig's coming of age drama, An Education, is a crackling account of one 16 year-old girl's liaison with an older man in 1960s London. Jenny, the teen in question, is not a mindless moppet but rather a free-spirited burgeoning intell...